# Thermal coal and Tobacco

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/thermal-coal-and-tobacco/

[Thermal coal](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/thermal_coal/) (energy) and [Tobacco](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/tobacco/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: energy cost

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Flue-cured tobacco is dried in heated barns, often fired by coal in India and China. Coal is a real curing cost, but the US import value series shows almost no link, slightly negative: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.10.

- **-0.10** monthly change correlation
- **-0.27** 12-month change correlation
- **0.11** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.